Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CAMEO OF "ALFALFA BILL" [TIME, Feb. 29] STOP TIME FALTERED ONLY IN COMPARING MURREYS RUGGED HONESTY WITH THAT OF CLEVELAND STOP DO YOU THINK THE GREAT GROVER WOULD PUBLISH A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SEND BLACKJACK ADVERTISING SOLICITORS TO PATRONS OF THE STATE BOARD OF AFFAIRS ADVISING THEM TO ADVERTISE IN WORTHLESS MEDIUM AT HIGH RATE IF THEY DESIRE TO CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS WITH THE STATE...
...bury his hatchet in the neck of his best friend who, aware that no personal enmity is involved, wills his daughter to his murderer. Complications occur when the daughter (Loretta Young, with braces for her eyes) grows up. She marries the hatchetman but falls in love with a worthless Oriental who takes her to China and sells her into slavery. Robinson with his axe retrieves her. The narrative, sensational and gory, unlikely and over deliberate, resembles a Sunday feature story in a cheap newssheet. Typical shot: an old Tongster (Dudley Digges) registering Chinese imperturbability by blinking when Robinson asks...
...value to about $12,000,000,000. Senator Johnson wanted know: Who issued these foreign securities in the U. S.? What was their cor mission? Did they retain any for ther selves or dump them all on the public? What political dickering was behind each issue? How much did worthless foreign bonds have to do with bank failures? The Senate Finance Committee prepared answer these questions by summoning ranking officers of the following big banking houses: J. P. Morgan & Co.; Kuh Loeb & Co.; National City Bank of Ne York; Chase National Bank; Guaranty Trust Co.; Dillon, Read...
...measuring stick in the West than in the East, about a dozen metropolitan dailies on the Pacific Coast are that old, or older. The Express was alive in Los Angeles for ten years before the Times came along. In San Francisco, in 1880, Senator George Hearst accepted the nearly worthless Examiner in lieu of payment of an old debt, negligently kept it for seven years until his son William, home from Harvard by expulsion, astounded him by asking to have the paper for his own. The Chronicle's stormy career under the brothers Charles and Michael De Young...
...being the mouth of the western-world Nile, so called because of its fertility. Other men answered that "Drang nach Osten" was a title of Charlemagne, the religion of the Huns, and a name applied to the Merovingian Kings because they couldn't even ride a horse, and were worthless...